wind-break
verb1
To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.
- 'Tvvould vvind-breake a moyle, or a ring'd mare, to vie burthens vvith her.c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, →OCLC, Act II, page 26:
- It’s not men by some mistake? / No, / There’s not a soul / For a wind-break / Between me and the North Pole— / Except always John-Joe, / My French Indian Esquimaux, […]1923 October, Robert Frost, “[Notes.] An Empty Threat.”, in New Hampshire […], New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 65: